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Most major award shows are absolutely worthless. It’s not about who’s the best. It’s about who had the most marketing. The person with the most exposure is the one who will win. Sure, there will always be a few surprises, but these are the exceptions which end up proving the rule.

While the Grammys are at the low end of the scale (the corruption of the music industry + the amount of great music outside the mainstream + awarding Milli-Vanilli + 500 different categories = Crap Award Program), the Emmys are only slightly above, although this year they did their best to screw themselves over. You see, in a noble attempt to spread some of the nominating love around, a “Blue Ribbon” panel was selected to finalize nominees. Basically, this fine group of people were those who took the creativity from other people’s nominating ballots and then just fucked it up by creating a tasty mixture of people who didn’t deserve to get nominated (Hi Kevin James! Hi Charlie Sheen!) and the repeat offenders (Will & Grace, 24). The neglected? Well, there are those that I knew would get overlooked (Battlestar Galactica, Everybody Hates Chris), some shocking snubs (The Office’s Rainn Wilson for Best Supporting Actor - Comedy, House’s Omar Epps for Best Supporting Actor - Drama), and then proof that this new system didn’t work: ignoring Hugh Laurie for Best Actor.

I’m watching the program right now but I’m watching it on mute because it’s a tribute to Aaron Spelling, a man you could only salute in death because his shows were just to trashy to acknowledge while he was alive. I was previously playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (article on that, coming soon) so I missed the first hour, but checking over the wins, I didn’t miss much. I could bitch about who deserved what, but I think this year was already blown at the nomination level.

Tags: stupid, television //